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The i64x2.add in the following WAT isn t being optimized at all (build/bin/wasm-opt --enable-simd -O3 -S -o - test.wat): (module (export v128-add (func $v128-add)) (export i64-add (func $i64-add)) ...

good first bug
CountBleck opened Apr 5, 2023
2 comments

warning: empty String is being created manually -- src/find/matchers/printf.rs:470:36 | 470 | .unwrap_or_else(|| .to_owned()) | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ...

good first bug
sylvestre opened Apr 2, 2023

cargo +nightly clippy --allow-dirty --fix -- -W clippy::pedantic finds 34 occurrences For example: warning: variables can be used directly in the `format!` string -- src/find/matchers/delete.rs:49:17 ...

good first bug
sylvestre opened Apr 2, 2023

Of course, it also means that we have to enable logging. So, probably export in env: SCCACHE_LOG=sccache=debug SCCACHE_ERROR_LOG=/tmp/sccache.log Example when it would have been useful: https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/actions/runs/4508809361/jobs/7938014339 ...

github_actions good first bug
sylvestre opened Mar 24, 2023

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/sccache-action

good first bug
sylvestre opened Mar 23, 2023

https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/html5.h.html#c.EmscriptenGamepadEvent.id Maximum size 64 char (i.e. EM_UTF8 id[128]). The id[128] should be id[64] instead? URL: ../../docs/api_reference/html5.h ...

docs good first bug help wanted
Stinkfist0 opened Feb 22, 2023
6 comments

It seems that some of the ports (SDL, OpenAL, etc) already have find_package enabled (Please correct me if I m wrong) It d be nice to also have it implemented for ICU find_package(ICU REQUIRED COMPONENTS ...

good first bug help wanted
Pospelove opened Feb 20, 2023
5 comments

Sccache cannot cache incremental builds, it is better to throw an error if it is not disabled. We can do this before sccache is started. Ref: https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/pull/7838

good first bug
Xuanwo opened Feb 12, 2023
2 comments

When working with a lot of tags from ConvertKit it makes it difficult if the tags names are not sorted alphabetically. We can asort( $args[ tags ] ); within the function display_options_convertkit_mapping ...

Good First Bug
andrewlimaza opened Jan 2, 2023
1 comment

Sometimes you might not want to pack all files from a specific folder, but only some. In this case glob pattern (there is a function in the Python standard library for doing this) would be useful like ...

good first bug help wanted
KivApple opened Dec 13, 2022
9 comments